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coppice:

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--- Quote from: dobsonr741 on December 31, 2023, 05:32:34 am ---
--- Quote --- What if there's a grid blackout and you have an emergency?
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That is the Zombie Apocalypse. A lot of good playbooks written for that case.

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As people discover, petrol stations (mostly) rely on the grid for pumping and/or selling fuel. So either way so either way its supply your own or go without.

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Not really. You can always stick a hand pump into the storage tank and pump the fuel up into your car by hand. What you'll need most is cash to pay for the gas.

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But where can you get the gas needed to drive to a store where you can get a hand pump? I remember when gas stations actually had some backup facilities. Decades of ultra reliable public power supplies have lead to most of that being dropped. Do places with regular power problems (tornado alley, etc.) still have hand pumping facilities as a backup?

CatalinaWOW:
OK. You keep a hand pump in your car and a Jerry can.  You shlep your way to the gas station and use your lock pick set that you always carry to get access to the tanks (you don't think they are left unlocked do you?).

So preppers, gas is better for short term emergencies. But unless you operate your own wells and refineries an electric car and solar cells will keep you mobile longer than scavenged gas

Homer J Simpson:

2025 Ram Ramcharger has a complete regular V6 Petrol engine to run the charging generator. :-\


Andy Chee:

--- Quote from: Homer J Simpson on December 31, 2023, 05:35:42 pm ---2025 Ram Ramcharger has a complete regular V6 Petrol engine to run the charging generator. :-\

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You don't *have* to use the V6.  You can plug it in like any other plug-in hybrid.  If you keep to short trips, you can survive on electric mode only.

CatalinaWOW:
So it's a hybrid, not a pure electric.  Might be pretty good.  3.6 liters is small in this vehicle class, but should be enough to maintain speed except for fully loaded hill climbs.  The electric provides acceleration and other heavy load help and does everything on short trips.  So good performance, good range, fair to good mileage at the cost of complexity.  Potentially a really good match for a lot of use cases.  Same idea as the Chevy Volt, which a lot of people love, and which I would have owned if I could physically get into one.  The Volts were definitely not for big people.

Doesn't sound terminally dumb to me.

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